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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Moon As You've Never Seen It Before

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

The Moon, as we've never seen it before, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

0:20.0

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us nearly 200

0:26.6

terabytes of data, including spectacular images. LRO Project Scientist Richard Vondrak returns to review just a few of the successes his spacecraft

0:36.9

has achieved from 50 kilometers above the lunar surface.

0:40.7

The rest of the gang will also join us, though Bruce Betts is in Romania, figuring

0:44.9

out how to save the planet.

0:47.1

Where will you be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 28?

0:50.6

Can you join us for planetary radio live in Pasadena?

0:54.0

It's free, but you need to RSVP.

0:57.0

Still plenty of seats, but they're going fast.

0:59.0

You can learn more at planetary.org

1:01.0

slash radio.

1:03.0

Time for another chat with Emily locked walla.

1:05.4

Emily as always lots of great stuff in the blog over the last few days.

1:10.2

More coming up, but let's talk about some of the highlights of the last week as we

1:13.7

usually do beginning perhaps with some images rather fascinating images of

1:19.2

earth from space but an earth that is no more.

1:22.8

Earth is a very unfamiliar looking globe

1:25.5

because they're representations of what Earth

1:27.8

might have looked like from space many millions of years ago.

1:31.3

And I picked out two globes to highlight from what's called the

1:34.5

visible paleo-Earth project. They took NASA's Blue Marble imagery, what's probably

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